Reading Bengal genocide, differently | Political Economy
A truth about the Bangladesh war is that few historians have given it a thorough, independent scrutiny The 49 th anniversary of East Pakistan’s secession and becoming Bangladesh is drawing close, affording us yet another opportunity for introspection and an occasion to read our past from a varied perspective. The East Pakistan debacle is a grim reminder of countless lives being lost in a bid to perpetuate the coercive control on the eastern wing of the country by the Pakistani Army. A majority of studies on the birth of Bangladesh point fingers at the Pakistan Army as a force of brutes, so...